Rain Maiden

1. Mailbox Suite

2. Christmas Soldier

3. Nuestros Hermanos de el Salvador

4. Song for the Children

5. Front Porch Serenade

6. Daybreak

7. Taylor Made

8. Rain Maiden

9. Land of the Redwoods

10. Waltz of the Wind

11. High Noon

12. Sand Harbor

13. Back at Linda's

14. Ethan's Peace

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Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No. 1
Compelling performances of a great Swedish composer.

Alfvén: Orchestral Works, Vol.1

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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Alfvén: Symphony No. 3
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Swedish Orchestral Favourites
Alfvén: Symphony No. 5; Andante religioso

ASIN: B00000ICL7
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

The Mountain King: Festival Overture, Op. 25
The Mountain King: Invocation
The Mountain King: Dance Of The Troll Maiden
The Mountain King: Summer Rain
The Mountain King: Dance Of The Shepherd Girl
Uppsala Rhapsodies, Op. 24: Swedish Rhapsody, No. 2
Symphony No.1 In F-Minor, Op.7: Grave - Allegro con brio
Symphony No.1 In F-Minor, Op.7: Andante
Symphony No.1 In F-Minor, Op.7: Allegro molto scherzando
Symphony No.1 In F-Minor, Op.7: Allegro ma non troppo

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Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No. 1.......2006-08-06

This is wonderful, outstanding music! I would make this recording required listening for anybody familiar with Alfvén's splendid "Midsommarvaka" (Swedish Rhapsody No. 1).

Compelling performances of a great Swedish composer........1999-05-07

Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) is now regarded as a leading Swedish composer, along with Wilhelm Stenhammar. In the past 30 years, prominent conductors such as Neemi Jarvi, Stig Westerberg, Evgeny Svetlanov, Lief Segerstam, & Sakari, advocated their works, especially through recordings. It was Stig Westerberg who was the first to bring works of these important Scandanavian composers from obscurity through the LP recordings. On the debit side, however, many of there chamber & chorus works (including songs) have not made it to the record shelves.

The festival overture is an appealing, nationistic 3/4 metre of a work, almost like a waltz, but with a more specific purpose. It's not a pompous work, but a work with sheer optimism & grandeur, with a fanfare opening suggesting nothing but festivity. It was composed in 1908 for the occasion of the opening of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

The ballet-pantomine "Bergakungen" (The Mountain King (1917-1922)) was based on the legendary story of shepardess who was abducted by a mountain king. With the help of a troll, the lover of the shepardess rescued her from the mountain king. The troll however realized that that he will never win the love of the shepardess, & therefore allowed them to die in a snow storm. This story is as tragic as the Czech fairy tale "The Noon Witch" for which Antonin Dvorak based his symphonic poem upon. The Suite, extractions from the ballet, is in four movements, with memorable themes throughout. The work is imaginative, mystic, & ultimately & immediately compelling. The beginning has a Sibelius' Finlandia touch & has the beauty of a Claude Debussy. The orchestration is personal & individualistic, & those qualities never left the composer for the rest of his prolific & successful career.

The Second of the three Uppsala Rhapsodies (Swedish Rhapsody no. II) was composed by 1907 for the 200th aniversary celebration of the Uppsala University. It's a parallelism to Brahms' Academic overture of 1881, with school song themes embetted throughout. It's an attractive, if not, a plain work that is appreciative.

The main item of this compact disc is the First Symphony in F minor of 1897 in four movements. The first is has a grim, slow, beginning. It gathers pace, but with no optimism, but with seriousness, ending on a tragic note. The Andante is meditative & laid back, with the idiom sounding somwhat modernistic. The Scherzando third movement is joyful, youthful, & somewhat pastorale, reminding one of Edvard Grieg. The finale has a Beethovenian like opening. Its' pace quickens with both festivity & youthful optimism. The middle section is memorable & charming before the movement picks up where it left off. Although somewhat discursive & episodic, the movement has it appeals nevertheless & neatly fits into the entire scheme of the symphony.

The performances of these works are no more or no less authoritative & compelling than those of Stig Westerberg, Jarvi, or Svetlanov. Although Niklas Willen & the Royal Scottish National Orchestra were slower in pace in Alfven's First symphony, most especially in the first movement, they performed the work, with other works on the disc, with passion, conviction, and with perfect discipline. Should you decide to go for the symphony, you can opt for any recordings currently available, including this one under Naxos (and under a budget-price). You will not be disapointed, I promise.

Tracks:

Mailbox Suite
The Christmas Soldier
Nuestros Hermanos De El Salvador
Song For The Children
Front Porch Serenade
Daybreak
Taylor Made
Rain Maiden
Land Of The Redwoods
Waltz Of The Wind
High Noon
Sand Harbor
Back At Linda's
Ethan's Peace

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Windmachine: Rainmaiden.......2004-08-06

This album gives the listener the feeling of a backyard picnic or a family gathering. I come away each and everytime after listening to this album with the feeling that somewhere deep down inside of each of us, there is a peaceful feeling that somehow the songs on this album can tap into.

I reccomend this album for family gatherings or as background music at meetings, of all places.

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One of opera's legendary figures sings lieder.

Kirsten Flagstad, Volume 4

Manufacturer: Simax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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One of opera's legendary figures sings lieder........2001-08-17

The Norwegian Kirsten Flagstad was the pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano of the 20th century, but she also gave hundreds of lieder and song recitals, the pick of which bejewel this ravishing double CD. the first offers three complete song-cycles, Grieg's rippling 'Haugtussa', all pastoral maidens and brooks, Flagstad singing as light as a breeze; Wagner's 'Wesendonck-Lieder', that ghost of his masterpiece 'Tristan and Isolde', my favourite lieder cycle - this is the best interpretation I have ever heard, passionate, yearning and, in 'Im Treibhaus' and 'Traume', genuinely spine-tingling. Sibelius' enchanting songs complete the CD, with 'The Maiden's Tryst' unexpectedly lush and romantic.

The second disc of Anglo-American songs may be less demanding, but are no less delightful. Highlights include Landan Ronald's operettish 'O Lovely Night', Frank Bridge's rollicking 'Love Went A-Riding', Bax's hushed 'The White Peace', Elgar's hymn-like tribute to his vocation 'Speak Music', Delius' rapturous 'Love's Philosophy', as well as a tantalisingly muffled 1937 recording of Stephen Foster's 'Old Folks at Home'. There are also no less than four lullabies, which attests to the Victorian hangover on bourgeois tastes in the middle of the last century.

Most of these recordings date from the 1950s, so the sound is relatively clear, and if Flagstad is past her operatic prime, her ability to express intense passion with an imperiously cool technique would put most modern singers to shame. her regular accompanist, Edwin McArthur, is a model of self-effacement, quietly playful and inventive in the background. My only complaint is that, at this price, surely a lyric sheet could have been provided. There is, however, a fascinating biographical piece, detailing, amongst other things, the soprano's dubious wartime conduct.

Maurice Ohana: Anneau Du Tamarit/Signes/Livre Des Prodiges
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Maurice Ohana: Anneau Du Tamarit/Signes/Livre Des Prodiges

Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
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General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000009IUI
Release Date: 1992-05-07

[Limited Edition CD & DVD] Ascendancy {DVD includes videos: Like Light to the Flies, Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr, Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, Rain, Dying in Your Arms, LIVE AT THE LONDON ASTORIA 9/18/05 - Rain, Dying in Your Arms, Like Light to the Flies, Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr
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[Limited Edition CD & DVD] Ascendancy {DVD includes videos: Like Light to the Flies, Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr, Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, Rain, Dying in Your Arms, LIVE AT THE LONDON ASTORIA 9/18/05 - Rain, Dying in Your Arms, Like Light to the Flies, Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr
Trivium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000JNS6W2

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Disc: 1 1. End of Everything 2. Rain 3. Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr 4. Drowned and Torn Asunder 5. Ascendancy 6. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation 7. Like Light to the Flies 8. Dying in Your Arms 9. Deceived 10. Suffocating Sight 11. Departure 12. Declaration 13. Blinding Tears Will Break the Skies [*] 14. Washing Away Me in the Tides [*] 15. Master of Puppets [*] 16. Dying in Your Arms [Video Mix][*] Disc: 2 1. Like Light to the Flies [DVD] [Multimedia Track] 2. Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr [DVD] [Multimedia Track] 3. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation [DVD] [Multimedia Track] 4. Rain [DVD] [Multimedia Track] 5. Dying in Your Arms [DVD] [Multimedia Track] 6. Rain [DVD] [Live] 7. Dying in Your Arms [DVD] [Live] 8. Like Light to the Flies [DVD] [Live] 9. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation [DVD] [Live] 10. Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr [DVD] [Live]